Friday, August 31, 2012

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South Carolina voter ID law trial winds down

WASHINGTON - Attorneys planned to wrap up testimony Friday in the federal trial over whether South Carolina's voter ID law discriminates against minority voters. The Obama administration rejected the law requiring voters show specific photo ID at the ...

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Testimony on SC voter ID law touches on racism

Washington - A South Carolina lawmaker and the author of a voter ID law considered discriminatory by the Justice Department testified in federal court this week that, while crafting the bill, he had responded favorably to a friend's racist email in ...

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Federal court rejects Texas voter photo ID law; SC next

The voter ID decision could set a precedent for upcoming legal challenges to similar laws in other states. South Carolina's strict photo ID law is on trial this week in front of another three-judge panel in the same federal courthouse. A ruling in that ...

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Voter ID Laws May Prevent Many Seniors From Voting

Over the past year and a half, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee have enacted voter ID laws. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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NAACP cites racist email in opposing voter ID law

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Black leaders in South Carolina said Thursday that the response by the author of the state's voter ID law to a racist email should help persuade a panel of federal judges to rule against it. But the state lawmaker who received ...

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Judges Question Whether South Carolina's Voter ID Law Is Ready For Primetime

WASHINGTON - As news broke on Thursday that a panel of federal judges had blocked a Texas voter ID law because it was racially discriminatory, a separate panel was busy questioning whether South Carolina would even be able to put their voter ID law ...

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Federal court rejects new Texas voter photo ID law

Last December, South Carolina's voter ID requirement became the first such law to be rejected by the Justice Department in nearly 20 years.

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WND Exclusive: Texas voter ID ruling based on 'faked' data

It was the second time voter ID laws were shot down in the U.S. In December, the Justice Department rejected the South Carolina voter ID law, also citing purported evidence minorities would be disenfranchised by the requirement to show photo ...

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SC residents say photo ID rule would keep them from voting

WASHINGTON -- Black South Carolina residents testified Thursday in federal court that financial hardship and a lack of transportation would likely keep them from voting if a state voter ID law that the Department of Justice has blocked goes into effect.

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Testimony: Some South Carolina county election officials unhappy with voter ID ...

WASHINGTON -- Some county elections directors in South Carolina say a 2011 state voter-ID law would amount to a poll tax, according to testimony and documents revealed Wednesday in a federal trial to determine whether the law is discriminatory.

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Federal court strikes down Texas voter ID law

In another case being heard in federal courts in the capital this week, South Carolina is suing the Justice Department over a ruling that its state voter ID law would disproportionately burden black voters. Black South Carolina residents testified ...

Nikki Haley (R-SC) complained that the "hardest part" of her job is "this president" opposing South Carolina's voter ID law, which would require a photo identification as a prerequisite for voting. But just hours before Haley took the stage, opponents ...

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Federal court blocks Texas voter ID law

Thursday's Texas decision came midway through a Voting Rights Act trial challenging a similar voter ID requirement in South Carolina. On Wednesday, a U.S. district judge lifted restrictions on third-party voter registration drives in Florida ...

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley hit President Barack Obama hard on stopping the Palmetto State from enacting immigration reform and a voter ID law in her speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. on Tuesday night. To view our videos, ...

WASHINGTON - The federal trial over South Carolina's voter identification law got under way Monday with a state senator insisting his work on the law was aimed at fighting fraud and instilling public confidence in the election system.

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Texas voter ID law rejected by federal court

On Wednesday, a US district judge permanently blocked a Florida law that tightened deadlines for groups conducting voter registration drives.

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South Carolina defends voter ID law in US court

State says law prevents voter fraud. * U.S. government blocked law as discriminatory. By Anna Yukhananov. WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - South Carolina defended its new voter-identification law in federal court on Monday, arguing the requirement that ...